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4412. Penalty. Any person owning a pharmacy or retail drug or chemical 

 store, who, in violation of the provisions of section four thousand four hundred 

 and five of this act, causes or permits the same to be conducted or managed by 

 a person not a registered pharmacist, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, 

 and upon^conviction thereof, shall be fined in any sum not less than twenty dol- 

 lars, or more than one hundred dollars, and each week that he shall cause or 

 permit such pharmacy, retail drug or chemical store to be so conducted or 

 managed shall constitute a separate and distinct offense, and render him liable 

 to a separate prosecution and punishment therefor; * * * And for the 

 violation of any of the provisions of section four thousand four hundred and 

 ten, such proprietor or manager shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and 

 upon conviction thereof Fliall be fined in any sum not exceeding fifty dollars 

 for each and every offense , * * * provided, that nothing in this act shall 

 be so construed as to in any way affect the right to (of) any person to bring 

 a civil action against any person referred to in this act, for any act or acts for 

 which a civil action may now be brought. It shall be the duty of the Ohfo 

 board of pharmacy, upon application therefor being made to said board, to 

 cause the prosecution cf any person or persons violating any of the provisions 

 of this act. (Law of 1884, s amended.) 



Bates' Annotated Statutes, 18,97, vol. 2, p. 2352. 

 SALE OF POISONS. 



1. Regulations; label; record. It shall be unlawful for any person to know- 

 ingly sell or deliver to any minor under sixteen years of age, except upon the 

 written order of an adult, or to sell or to deliver to any person, any of the 

 following described substances, or any poisonous compound, poisonous com- 

 bination or poisonous preparation thereof, to-wit : The compounds and salts of 

 antimony, arsenic, chromium, copper, lead, mercury, zinc, the concentrated min- 

 eral acids, oxalic and hydrocyanic acids and their salts, yellow phosphorus, 

 carbolic acid, the essential oils of almonds, penny royal, tansy and savin, croton 

 oil, creosote, chloroform, chloral hydrate, cantharides, or any aconite, bella- 

 donna, bitter almonds, colchicum, cotton root, cocculus indicns, conium, can- 

 nabis, indica, digitalis, hyocyamus, ignatia, lobelia, nux vomica, opium, physo- 

 stigma, phytolacca, strophanthus, stramonium, verntrum veride, or any of the 

 poisonous alkaloids or alkaloidal salts or other poisonous principles derived 

 from the foregoing, or any other poisonous alkaliods or their salts or any other 

 virulent poison, except in the manner following: 



It shall first be learned by due inquiry that the person to whom delivery is 

 made is aware of the poisonous character of the substance, and that it is desired 

 for a lawful purpose, and the box, bottle or other package shall be plainly 

 labeled with the name of the substance, " Poison ", and the names of two or 

 more substances which may be used as antidotes. And before delivery shall 

 be made of any of the foregoing substances, there shall be recorded in a book 

 (kept) for that purpose the name of the article, the quantity delivered, the 

 purpose for which it is alleged to be used, the date of delivery, the name and 

 address of the purchaser, and the name of the dispenser, which book shall be 

 preserved for at least five years, and shall at all times be open to inspection 

 by the proper officers of the law. 



2. Exceptions. The provisions of section 1 of this act shall not apply to 

 articles dispensed to or upon the order or prescription of persons believed by 

 the dispenser to be lawfully authorized practitioners of medicine or dentistry 



